Is It Safe to Share Personal Thoughts With AI?
People often find it easier to open up to AI than to another person. But feeling comfortable sharing thoughts is not the same as feeling emotionally safe.
Answer
In the AI Companionship & Human Connection 2025 dataset (n = 501) , people are split on whether sharing personal thoughts with AI feels safe: 39% report high comfort sharing thoughts with AI, while 48% report low comfort.
Perceptions of emotional safety are similarly divided: 41% say AI feels more emotionally safe than talking to people, while 41% say it feels less emotionally safe.
This suggests that sharing with AI can feel safe for some people, but this experience is not consistent across users.
These findings reflect self-reported responses within survey samples. They describe measured patterns and do not establish causation.
How people often describe this concern
- “It feels easier to say things to AI than to someone else.”
- “I can open up without worrying about being judged.”
- “It feels private in the moment, even if I am not sure it really is.”
- “Sometimes it feels safe — sometimes it does not.”
- “Being comfortable talking is not the same as actually feeling safe.”
Do people who feel comfortable sharing thoughts with AI also feel emotionally safe?
Yes. Respondents who report high comfort sharing personal thoughts with AI are far more likely to report feeling emotionally safe doing so.
Among high-comfort respondents (n = 196), 85% say AI feels more emotionally safe and 6% say it feels less safe. Among low-comfort respondents (n = 241), only 8% say AI feels more safe, while 75% say it feels less safe.
These figures describe associations within the survey sample and do not establish causation.